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Article rating : 10.00, 1 votes. Author : Lance Winslow
Is there life on the icy planet? Some believe that it is just too cold, yet the Hubble Space Telescope has show that there multiple moons and thus the planet will have gravitational pull in different directions at different times. This will mean their will be movement on the planet, meaning there will be friction from the movement. Where there is friction and movement there will be heat.
If the Pluto has an icy surface and made up in a good portion of ice and if that ice is water ice, well then there will be ice, which has melted from the heat from the friction. Thus it has what it needs to support life.
What do we know so far? Well we know that Pluto is big enough to be a Planet as it has moons. We knew it had at least one moon before named Charon. Now we have found two more moons making three total. How do we know that the other two moons are actually moons and not passers by? Well the seem to estimate that their size is 50-100 miles wide and the moons follow a path around Pluto’s equator and are stable there and may have been for hundreds of millions of years or more.
We should know much more before 2015 when a NASA probe is scheduled to get there. Then we will know more about what Pluto is really made of, if it has the density of another planet and how much ice is there? Think on this.
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